NOW Live Events presents:

It’s easy to find yourself doing more, more, more – and yet never really getting to where you want to be. By doing less, you are actually able to accomplish much more and be far happier in the process.

In our media, women’s sport gets the same coverage as men’s darts. Out of 2,300 works of art in the National Gallery in 2010, only 10 were by women. And there are more men in the House of Commons today than the total number of women who have ever been elected into parliament…

Conway Hall Ethical Society presents:

Mainstream economists failed to anticipated the great financial crash of 2007-8. In this talk, Professor Steve Keen, will share his view on the bigger picture – including recent financial developments around the world. He will review options for the future of economics, highlight the little-understood importance of debt, and argue that significant debt write-downs are needed in order to limit future financial crashes. Steve Keen is a Professor of Economics & Head of the School of Economics, History & Politics at…

This talk will explore the life of William Seabrook (1884-1945), once a celebrated feature writer, journalist, travel writer and friend to many key artists of the New York and Paris Modernist era. Seabrook’s exotic travels led him to join the Bedouins, attempt to eat human flesh in West Africa, experiment with witchery with Aleister Crowley, pay Man Ray to photograph Lee Miller in bondage, and in his most lasting legacy travel to Haiti and publish Magic Island, the book he claimed introduced the zombie to American popular culture.